Data on Monetary Receipts 
for the Publication of the Newspaper *Iskra* and on Cash Available 
in the Editorial Office¹
[Second Half of April 1901]

Mk. *
1000 from Ars.²
Frs. **
150 *** from Nakh.³
Rub.
200 mine
00 Rub.
100 from Grachikha⁴
§ Frs.
150*** from Nakh.
vo Kr. ****
6.70
mine
Mk.
I Frs·
250 *** from Aks.⁵
10 0 p.
I Frs.
5 0*** from Nakh. received
350 frs.
RO
10. IV. 01.
250 frs.
3320.50
2775.46
+
545. 05
302, 02 Cash on hand
28. XII. 00.
847.07 Should be in office
= 215 |
695 mk.
= 200

minus
1542.07 (debts)
" 645
897. 07
A from
Koltsov⁷
frs. ???
should be
cash on hand
1000 (from Ars.) returned
what I gave him
in Stuttgart *
240 ( = 300 frs.)
200 ( = 250 frs.)
215 ( = 100 p. )
847.07
645
202-07
+ 695—
Mk. in foreign
currency
897. 07
Mk. 1655
+
200

* — Marks.
** — Francs.
*** In the manuscript this figure is crossed out.
**** — Crowns.
***** Word not deciphered.

¹ *Iskra* — the first all-Russian illegal Marxist newspaper, founded by V. I. Lenin in 1900, and which played a decisive role in the creation of the revolutionary Marxist party of the Russian working class. The first issue of *Iskra* came out in December 1900 in Leipzig; subsequent issues were published in Munich, from July 1902 — in London, and from spring 1903 — in Geneva. After the Second Congress of the Party, from No. 52, the newspaper *Iskra* became the organ of the Mensheviks.

² Ars. — Arsenyev — A. N. Potresov — one of the leaders of Menshevism. In the 1890s he participated in the Petersburg "Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class," was exiled to Vyatka Province. In 1900 he went abroad, participated in the creation of *Iskra* and *Zarya*. During the years of reaction and the new revolutionary upsurge — an ideologue of Liquidationism. During the world imperialist war — a social-chauvinist. After the October Socialist Revolution he emigrated abroad.

³ Nakh. — Nakhimkis — Yu. M. Steklov — participated in the social-democratic movement from 1893. In 1894 he was arrested and exiled for 10 years to the Yakutsk region. In 1899 he escaped abroad. Was one of the organizers of the literary group "Struggle," which attempted to reconcile revolutionary and opportunist tendencies in Russian social-democracy. After the Second Congress of the RSDLP he sided with the Bolsheviks. During the years of reaction and the new revolutionary upsurge he collaborated in the Central Organ of the RSDLP — the newspaper *Social-Democrat*, and in the Bolshevik newspapers *Zvezda* and *Pravda*. After the February bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1917 he stood on the positions of "revolutionary defensism," was a member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet and editor of the *Bulletin of the Petrograd Soviet*. Later he went over to the Bolsheviks. After the October Socialist Revolution — a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee, editor of the newspaper *Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee*.

⁴ Grachikha — K. P. Medvedeva — wife of N. E. Bauman. In 1897, on account of a student organization affair in Moscow, she was exiled for 2 years to Saratov. In 1900 she returned to Moscow; in 1901 she sided with the *Iskra* group. In February 1902 she was again exiled to Saratov, from where she moved to Kiev. She participated in preparing the escape of ten *Iskra* members from Lukyanovskaya prison. From October 1902 she lived abroad. In August 1903 she came to Moscow, where in June 1904 she was arrested together with N. E. Bauman. Later she withdrew from political activity.

⁵ Aks. — P. B. Axelrod — in 1883 he participated in the creation of the group "Liberation of Labor." From 1900 — a member of the editorial board of *Iskra*; at the Second Congress of the RSDLP he was present with a consultative voice from the editorial board of *Iskra*, an *Iskra* minority supporter. After the Congress — an active Menshevik. During the years of reaction and the new revolutionary upsurge — one of the leaders of the Liquidationists. During the world imperialist war — a social-chauvinist.

⁶ At the end of November 1900 V. I. Lenin traveled to Stuttgart to organize the preparation and publication of the first issue of the journal *Zarya*.

⁷ Apparently refers to D. Koltsov — B. A. Ginzburg — a social-democrat. At the beginning of 1893 he emigrated to Switzerland, where he came close to the "Liberation of Labor" group; in 1895—1898 he was secretary of the "Union of Russian Social-Democrats Abroad," contributed to its publications. At the Second Congress of the RSDLP he was present with a consultative voice; after the Congress — an active Menshevik.